Moroccan Mothers Jailed, Deported for Abandoning Children in Spanish Enclave

This rather common practice allows abandoned children to be taken in at reception centers, where they are cared for as unaccompanied foreign minors, before their social integration.

The two women, caught in the act by the Guardia Civil, were about to leave their offspring in the city center, so that they would be taken in by the famous La Purìsima center.

Last August, a 39-year-old Moroccan woman had abandoned her two children, aged 6 and 11, near a police station. Arrested later, she had stated that she did not have the means to provide for their needs.